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A young Junichiro Tanizaki in 1908

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Japanese author Osamu Dazai with his first wife Hatsuyo Oyama.

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Japanese author Osamu Dazai engaged in a match of Shogi with fellow author and mentor Ibuse Masuji at the latters house (1940).

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Japanese author Osamu Dazai's repeated scribbling of the name of his literary idol Ryunosuke Akutagawa on his school notebook as a teenager.

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Japanese author Osamu Dazai in middle school.

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Japanese author Osamu Dazai

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The search for Japanese author Osamu Dazai and his Mistress Tomie Yamazaki's mortal remains in the days following their disappearance. (June 1948)

Location- Tamagawa Aqueduct

The search was extremely challenging due to the rapid rise in water level after heavy rain fall, mud, and swift current.

It would take 6 days to finally find them, coincidentally on the authors 39th birthday, 19 June 1948. After being found, Dazai was almost immediately cremated.

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Doodles by Japanese author Osamu Dazai as a student in his 'ethics' notebook.